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This plane crash takes us to the Central American country of Honduras, which is located next to the following countries: Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH
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Pictured above is the accident aircraft, photographed in early 1989.
TAN-SAHSA Flight 414, registered as November 88705 (N88705), was a scheduled international passenger flight from Juan Santamaría International Airport (IATA: SJO, ICAO: MROC), San José, Costa Rica to Toncontín Airport (IATA: TGU, ICAO: MHTG), Tegucigalpa, Honduras, the plane had a scheduled stopover at Augusto C. Sandino Airport (IATA: MGA, ICAO: MNMG), Managua, Nicaragua, on the 21st of October 1989, the route was being flown by a Boeing 727-200, the flight crashed into a hill of the mountain range after the pilots failed to follow a special landing procedure required for the destination airport arrival, the crash killed 131 people, which left 15 survivors (146 in total were on board the plane).
Tegucigalpa ATC cleared the flight for the VOR/DME approach, which uses a series of three step downs to runway 01, this is due to the high terrain in the area, from the initial approach fix of 7,500 feet MSL (Mean Sea Level), the crew began a continuous descent from about 7,600 feet MSL at about 20 kilometres from the airport, rather than following the prescribed step down procedure, which led to the accident site, the descent profile was below the step down course for the entire approach to the airport, the aircraft impacted a mountain known as Cerrode Hula which stood at 4,800 feet of elevation, approximately 800 feet (240 meters) below the summit is where the plane crashed, 8.9 kilometres from Tegucigalpa runway 01 threshold, at impact, the aircraft was in approach configuration, the plane broke into three sections, the first section (which was the cockpit and the first class section) contained almost all of the survivors of the accident, due to the close to stall, nose high configuration at impact.
The summary of the crash was Pilot error and possible criminal negligence.
